All teams have now played their first game of the 2018 World cup. We have had a few surprises, Germany losing to Mexico and Brazil’s Draw with Switzerland. There have been plenty of goals with the help of VAR and Nine Penalties. To top it all off, we have had a win for ENGLAND! Once again they kept us on the edge of our seats until a winning goal in injury time from that man Harry Kane!!!

The football forecast is starting to take shape and looking very close. With four players in joint top spot on 22 Points. There is still a long way to go and a lot of points to be had.

World Cup Forecast Top Five

Pos Player Points

1 Emma Yates 22

1 Clive Francis 22

1 Dancing Hatters 22

1 Shadan Noori 22

5 Jake Nicolaides 21

The Facts

We have only had one red card with Carlos Sanchez of Columbia sent off after only 2 minutes 56 seconds into his world cup. That meant that those who chose Columbia as one of their teams lost three points.

World Cup Top Scorers (Golden Boot contenders)

Pos Player Team Goals

1 Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal 3

2 Denis Cheryshev Russia 2

2 Diego Costa Spain 2

2 Harry Kane England 2

2 Romelu Lukaku Belgium 2

Todays Game

The First game of Round two is the high scoring Russian’s taking on Egypt with Europe’s top scorer this year Mo Salah. This promises to be a high scoring game!

So here it is, another cycling challenge!
This time we are cycling from the Arctic to Africa a Distance of 4500 over a three stages in a three-year period in aid of Alzheimer Research U.K.

We are starting our challenge at Midnight on or as near to possible to midsummers day when the sun never sets from Nordkapp the most northern point in Europe and 550 miles inside the Arctic circle. We cycle through Norway into Finland then Sweden finishing our first leg in Gothenburg.

We will return the following year to Gothenburg and cycle to Monaco then the final leg will be from Monaco to Casablanca in Morocco.